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pea-soupers

pea-soupers is the plural of pea-souper.

Meaning of pea-souper

Noun

pea-souper (plural pea-soupers)

  1. (Canada, UK, informal) A dense, yellowish fog, often mixed with smoke; a pea-soup fog, a smog.
    • A man bumped into a lamp post during a pea-souper; he immediately apologised to it, not realising what it was.
  2. (Canada, derogatory, slang) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
    • Those pea-soupers are the worst drivers on the road!

Questions about pea-soupers

What is pea-soupers the plural of?
Pea-soupers is the plural of pea-souper.

Words near pea-soupers in the dictionary

  1. pea-sized
  2. pea-soup
  3. pea-soup fog
  4. pea-soup fogs
  5. pea-souper
  6. pea-soupers
  7. pea-soups
  8. pea-soupy
  9. pea-time
  10. pea-time is past
  11. pea-times

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